Comments on: Citi Premier Review: Revamped spending categories and benefit changes coming soon https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:19:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.4 By: Gaius Gracchus https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5807150 Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:35:33 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5807150 The offer itself for the Citi Premier card is pretty good if you can get the $60k bonus, but it is dealing with Citibank that has been a horror.

First, they declined my application.  Which is insane.  Why?  My FICO scores range from 835-850.  Yearly earnings vary from $230,000 – $260,000 per year.   We have NO DEBT.  I have a number of credit cards but they are paid off every month. No loans, just paid off our million dollar home.   
Assets in the range of millions.

Then, after I complained, they opened the credit card with a limit of $2000.  LOL!  Really????!!!   The same day I applied to Chase Sapphire and got a very large limit and a few months later with Fidelity Signature Visa and got an even larger limit.  (Just sayin’.)

But it gets better!   Even though I have had a separate Citi Double Cash card for OVER A DECADE and have a flawless record with that, they refused to apply my payments to the Premier card for WEEKS.  That’s right – they take the money from my bank and refuse to allow me to use the credit line even though they have the money for weeks.  It is the same payment account being used to pay the Citi Double Cash card, by the way.

This is a form of theft, is it not?  Think about it.  They take the money from my bank account and, in effect, create a forced loan from me to them because they don’t make the money available to me to use, but they HAVE IT.  Somewhere, right?  Free interest for them using my funds in a forced loan every time I make a payment and wait for weeks for it to be applied to my credit line.

They are treating me like a brand new customer they have never met before – after over 10 years with them as a customer they act like this 5 month old account is suspect and I am engaging in criminal activity that needs close monitoring.  And the credit limit of $2000 makes the card virtually UNUSABLE.   

Working with their customer service has been an exercise in frustration.  I despise Citibank and me and my family members are closing all accounts with them ASAP.

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By: vince https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5789334 Wed, 03 Jul 2019 03:13:12 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5789334 I signed up for this card and did everything to get my points but they never posted my 3rd payment so i did not meet the terms

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By: David https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5788973 Sat, 29 Jun 2019 09:05:07 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5788973 Today I received notice that Citi is doing away with many of the Premier card benefits currently offered. I hope they are offering current customers a “PC” to a different card, because I have no intention of continuing to pay $95.00 per year for this card given the benefit cuts beginning in September…….. World Elite???? Hmmmmm, not anymore…..

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By: James https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5787932 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:06 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5787932 Since the regular 50,000 point offer has the annual fee waived the first year but this offer does not, you should subtract $95 from your $750 valuation.

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By: Lee https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5781954 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 04:19:27 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5781954 What are the product change options? Can you maintain the points?

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By: Steve https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5775041 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 02:56:08 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5775041 I have other cards that get me air miles and hotel points so I have used this card’s points to pay for rental cars and tours. I found the redemption rate for these to be very favorable even in Hawaii where rental car rates can soar. Its super easy to use these points. If you are like me and blocked by the Chase 5/24 rule this is an excellent option.

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By: Claudia https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5766099 Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:44:55 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5766099 Hello Keith,
Do you happen to know when this promotion expires?

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By: Susan https://millionmilesecrets.com/reviews/citi-premier/#comment-5764643 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:05:41 +0000 https://rvprmmsprd.wpengine.com/?p=507572#comment-5764643 I just made a “rookie” mistake, even after a few years of playing! Nowhere in your article, or even on the Citi application do the words “Mastercard” appear until after I was instantly approved! I just “assumed” this was a Visa, and planned on using for a big purchase at Costco. Curses, foiled again!

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